SADC summit on Zimbabwe tomorrow

"The summit of heads of state and government is expected to be attended by all (SADC) member states," the South African Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The extraordinary meeting follows the failure of talks last Monday to break an impasse between President Robert Mugabe and opposition MDC party leader Morgan Tsvangirai over control of key ministerial portfolios and other top public posts in a unity government envisaged under a September power-sharing deal.
SADC chairman and South African President Kgalema Motlanthe chaired the failed Harare talks that were also attended by Mozambique's Armando Guebuza and former South African President Thabo Mbeki.
Mbeki brokered Zimbabwe's power-sharing deal while Guebuza is acting chairman of SADC's special committee on politics, defence and security.
Motlanthe will chair tomorrow's summit, all in all the seventh regional leaders will be holding on Zimbabwe. While all 15 SADC member-sates are expected to be represented at tomorrow's meeting, it was not immediately clear how many heads of state or government will attend in person.
Some leaders such as Botswana's President Ian Khama, the region's most outspoken critic of Mugabe's controversial rule, appear to have boycotted previous summits on Zimbabwe.
Tsvangirai told journalists on last Thursday that he was hopeful tomorrow's summit would finally break the deadlock over power-sharing and allow the formation of a unity government to tackle Zimbabwe's deepening economic and humanitarian crisis.
I hope that if SADC leaders approach the problem with an objective point of view, I’m sure we should be able to resolve the matter," said Tsvangirai. 
But the opposition leader — who defeated Mugabe in a first round presidential vote last March but pulled out of the second round ballot citing violence against his supporters — said a unity government could only function effectively if Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party agreed to cede substantial power to the MDC.
Very few people are optimistic that SADC has the will or courage to pressure Mugabe — still admired in some parts of Africa despite his ruinous policies in Zimbabwe — to give up his wide ranging powers, left intact under the power-sharing deal.
Under the power-sharing agreement Mugabe will remain president while Tsvangirai becomes prime minister and MDC breakaway faction leader Arthur Mutambara deputy prime minister.
The agreement is seen as a chance to rescue Zimbabwe, a once prosperous country whose economy is now in ruins after a 10-year recession that has seen inflation shoot beyond 231 million percent, acute shortages of food and basic commodities, amid an outbreak of killer diseases such as cholera and anthrax.